May we practice that endurance today — and every day.

Jesus closes the passage with:
“By your endurance you will gain your lives.”
Endurance = active compassion.
Endurance = refusing systems that harm.
Endurance = saying yes when a parent needs formula, and yes to a world shaped by dignity.

Marjorie Suchocki reminds us,
“God works with the world as it is to bring it toward what it can be.”

John Cobb wrote,
“God’s power is the call toward life, never the force that crushes it.”
When we choose fear or scarcity, we side with the collapsing stones.

And politically? Both parties keep advancing policies that further marginalize the poor. Poverty is regulated instead of relieved.

This week’s baby-formula experiment made it painfully clear: a woman posing as a single mother called houses of worship for help.
Nearly every non-Christian house of worship said yes. Only about 27% of Christian churches did.
A gospel of welcome met with a culture of suspicion.

On this World Day of the Poor, that feels close to home.